“You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.” PeopleHas BeensMomentsSeemsEyeGivenTakenOur LivesPlayerEventsDramaRemarkableOver YouSplendidFeverImmediacyNew EyesImprobability Author:Doris Lessing
“It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.” IfsShouldEndsPlayGovernmentGivenEasyMillionsTerribleDramaToughPoundsTerrible ThingsCoalitionsPubs Author:Russell T Davies
“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentStoriesFormCoursesOpportunityGivenAbilityWatchesAudienceWeekMissingTelevisionDramaComplexesStorytellingDifferent WaysOnlineStorytellerCostumesCablesDvdsInteractingMining Author:Sarah Wayne Callies
“I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.” PeopleThinkingFactsGivenLaughingVirtueOur LivesDramaMaking People Laugh Author:Matthew Lillard
“I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.” LoveFilmGivenLevelsStrengthConfidenceDramaBiggerProfoundDefinitionsSophisticatedFrench LoveConfidence And Strength Author:Jim Broadbent
“No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.” GivenStageDramaIndependentIndependent WomenNo Drama Author:George P. Baker
“I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!” ThinkingArtStillsKidsSchoolGivenBlackLandDramaTrainingVisualsDancerNightmareThis DayArt SchoolVisual ArtTightsWearing Black Author:Jake Epstein
“What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like Blackadder, even though he's a relatively low key character in a way, he did relish the lines that he had and the words that he was given, with a lot of inflection.” WayTryingCharacterGivenLinesTelevisionKeysDramaDirectorsLowsRelishLow KeyTelevision Drama Author:Rowan Atkinson
“This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary in a drama? Does it make a character boring? Does everyone agree on a character being "redeemed?" Or is it a word that is so subjective and polarizing and insignificant in modern television? It is a word that has been given, quite possibly, far too much significance, when it is truly ambiguous and meaningless in a drama. I have personally grown to loathe that word in literature.” KnowsDoeHas BeensCharacterLiteratureGivenToo MuchHappenedModernTelevisionDramaAgreeBoringRedemptionSignificanceDo You KnowMeaninglessInsignificantSubjectiveTangibleAmbiguousLoatheRedeemedPolarizing Author:Michael Muhney
“People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsPainTogetherMotherAsksOpportunityGivenCreativeDramaNewsBlessedGoldenAsk MeOur TimeHeavenlyProtectedOur RelationshipAcheFamily DramaTime TogetherAches And PainsOur Time Together Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of Star Wars - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.” KindWarReasonWantedActorsGivenStarsChanceRolesSawsHavensDramaProjectsSci FiStraightforwardGiven A Chance Author:Ricky Schroder
“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.” KnowsMomentsSpiritualSpiritualityGivenDramaPerceiveMoments In Time Author:Ram Dass
“Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingMayCharacterStoriesRememberActorsGivenVoiceResultsFictionToo MuchMissingAmountDramaElementsWhat You WantDialogueStorytellerPlaywright Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.” FirstsSchoolFormGivenParentRolesTeacherWonderfulDramaSingingEncouragementProductionsHillsMusic Teacher Author:Elaine Paige